Question

according to klinkenburg, why was Darwin's idea "unconventional"?

Answer 1

According to the author, Darwin's idea was unconventional. It has variations and is absorbed in the context of various adaptations.

It is focused on the basis of the biological sciences and is the moving point of what one got to know about life on earth after the establishment.

His main idea was the evolution which occurs because of natural selection. And thus the idea was unconventional because earlier there was a set notion of conventionality in terms of species being fixed. He disrupted the fixed notion.

His ideas were itself set in history and that's what makes it unconventional. The idea is a cornerstone of what one knows about life on earth, as it changed the worldview drastically.

The idea of evolution was rooted in the time when Darwin was making such theories but the people in that time and age were set against it.

He was well rooted with money and privileges and thus he was conventional in all forms but he used all his resources in disrupting that conventional idea and showing humans where their true ancestry in nature came from.